Paul Cook turns 70 today. the Sex Pistols work in great part because of him: the steady, driving, rock center of the band. a version of "God Save the Queen" with just his drums and Lydon's vocal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk2K...

Yep. It's for people who set goals and treat reading as something they *should* do, rather than something they like doing. And so they find and defend ways to cheat.

OK here's the definitive answer to this: listening to an audiobook is not reading. Reading and listening are different. You process the stuff differently. Even though listening is not the same thing as reading, it is not morally corrupt to listen to an audiobook. kthxbi

I'm selling an OG 1994 Smashing Pumpkins shirt on TradeMe. They can go for way more than this so if it's your thing then get amongst www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...

It's coming home

Been a while since a Lord Lucan sighting. Keep your eyes peeled, folks.

He’s a foolish and incurious fellow who mistakes the familiar for the superior

@definitelydylan.bsky.social rtyi www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwaw...

Some ppl are having trouble seeing what RNZ's number one NZ song of all time is. It is 'Pills & Toast' by my old band The Airports. Have a blessed day.

Legit find it hard to square my love for this guy's work with how he presents himself in public. He's so, so, so good on screen. Come on - Videodrome, Once Upon a Time in America, Casino, Virgin Suicides... I am a big James Woods fan.

Just last week a guy was telling me to try those Rueben sarnies out Kilbirnie way but now it'll look like I'm just doing it cos they've been in the papers.

lou reed

whew he's not coming to wellington. i would have felt obliged to buy a ticket but probably not have been that into it. some great tunes but etc etc

I am sure I just heard reference on Morning Report to the 'Military of Social Development'

shout out to plum sauce gotta be one of the best sauces out there

And then my life became risky/ And so the rent became whiskey, whiskey/ Shattered dogs on the rocks, shattered dogs on the rocks

I've had a hardback copy of Pete Townshend's autobiography for years and am just getting round to doing it on audiobook.

Nobody's perfect but the radio hit Invisible Touch by Genesis is perfect.

They should adapt this, it's a helluva read

can't think of any sorry

New McCartney soon.

A life well spent

I would not have thought this would work as well as it does

Listen I'm not here for any white house is sacred discourse. It's a mansion built by slaves for slaveowners and it should be turned into a museum and the president should live in a somewhat nice condo

oh no his room must be so messy

Well after much prompting I started reading Lonesome Dove and it rules.

for a while back there, whenever mr brightside came on in a bar i would sing along 'and now she's cooking a duck, but she's fucking it up'.

Pay with cash? No thanks! This seems like a You problem.

Where are all the rad people on Bluesky?

watched Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

I heard on the radio that ozempic costs hundreds of dollars a month. For an injection that makes you less likely to want a cheeseburger. What the H

Huge news! I'm co-producing Alexandre O Philippe's new doc IN SEARCH OF NOSFERATU. Our team (including @pattonoswalt.bsky.social) is scouring the world for uniquely aged prints of Murnau's classic. 🚨 CAN YOU HELP? 🚨 Any leads on old prints, VHS, etc, please hit me up! Our treasure hunt is global!

Dead or alive, you are coming with me.

Canada. I’d like to go there. I like a lot of Canadian stuff.

I had a dream they were tearing up the CBD to build a new stadium because they needed one that could accommodate the biggest act ever to play Wellington: Brian Eno.

I’m watching Brian De Palma’s film of Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia and it‘s… not bad? Some duff spots sure but a lot of it really works.

Going to see the great 1999 film Fight Club tonight, regardless of what you might think about that.

The heartwarming Bluey episode about Rusty, whose dad is in the Army and deployed but bonds with his son through letters about cricket, takes on a different coloration now that practically all of Australian special forces is implicated in war crimes in Afghanistan

The Dominion is a great name if you’re looking to start a newspaper

Most people have bad taste and like bad things

Celebrated ten years since Prince leaving by playing I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man and The Cross (tracks 4 and 5 of Sign 'O' the Times Disc 2) about twenty times today.

Listening to I’m Your Man on CD, a format perfect for I’m Your Man. I have the LP too but it never seems quite right. I might even get rid of it.

Nicola Willis just badmouthed Winston on MR. National will lose the election.

It is almost as though the very climate itself were changing

Apparently this generation will be the first in history to not be as cool as their parents

The one recentish music industry manipulation yarn I’m interested in is the Christian money influence in the 2010s leading to the promotion of positive, upbeat pop rock like Mumford and Sons. I’d read a book on that.